Spammers have been taking over unsuspecting computer users’ machines for years in order to send out unwanted e-mails, but recently they have been getting even more aggressive. The SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) recently reported that a large, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has targeted several organizations that attempt to fight spam: Spamhaus, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists), URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklist), and Rules Emporium (the host site for the open-source SpamAssassin program). As of this writing, the Rules Emporium and URIBL are still under attack and are unreachable.
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Barracuda Spam Firewall 100 Offers Powerful Spam and Virus Protection for ÂŁ848… Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network security appliances, today launched the Barracuda Spam Firewall 100 for small businesses and organisations with 50 users or less. Priced at ÂŁ848 (includes six months of Energize Updates service) with no per user licensing fees, the Barracuda Spam Firewall 100 offers the same easy to use, powerful spam and virus protection that more than 40,000 customers worldwide have come to rely on, at a price that is well within budget for smaller organisations.
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Singapore – Companies in Singapore sending e-mail advertisements will have to tag their messages with an “ADV” label and allow e-mail users to unsubscribe from the messages starting next Friday. Under the new law aimed at curtailing unsolicited commercial electronic messages, those who continue to send spam to people who have opted out will face penalties of 25 Singapore dollars (16 US dollars) for each message, up to a total of 1 million Singapore dollars (658,000 US dollars).
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Robert Alan Soloway, described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers, was arrested Wednesday. Despite the arrest, millions of junk e-mails continued to surface the mailboxes. He was once on a top 10 list of spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization. Others have since topped him, mostly based in Russia and other countries out of reach of U.S. or European law.
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IronPort Systems has announced the introduction of the IronPort X1050 e-mail security appliance. The IronPort X1050 offers a significant increase in performance, scanning more than 2.5 million messages per hour. This is 400% more processing power than IronPortâs previous generation of carrier-class appliances, the IronPort X1000, and as much as 10 times the performance of competing systems.
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An email apparently sent by Marks & Spencer, offering ÂŁ100-worth of vouchers if you forward it on to friends, is a hoax. The email asks you to send it on to at least eight other people, while copying in a legitimate email address from Persimmon Homes, which it also says is involved with the offer. Both Marks & Spencer and Persimmon Homes have denied any involvement but there is a worry that people who benefited from a Threshers voucher, which circulated mistakenly before Christmas last year, will believe it to be genuine and pass it on.
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The latest malware spam run is using gripping news headlines as email subjects to hook in unsuspecting victims. And while this is not something new, the use of actual news headlines can make it more difficult to distinguish it as malicious.
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Spammers have launched a new attack that could jeopardise the security of SMEs, new figures show.
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housands of Tiscali customers are demanding answers after hackers broke through the internet service provider’s security to send spam causing the email service to collapse.
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